How Ottawa Spends, 2014-2015: The Harper Government - Good to Go?

Cover\nCopyright\nContents\nPreface\n1 The Harper Government –Good to Go?\nPart One Economic and Social Policy Agenda and Challenges\n2 Government Retrenchment and Public Service Cuts: A Tale of Two Processes\n3 The Parliamentary Budget Officer: The First Five Years\n4 Crime or Punishment: What Is the Harper Justice Agenda?\n5 Justin Trudeau and Leadership Idolization: The Centralization of Power in Canadian Politics and Political Parties\n6 Coming Full Circle? Ottawa’s Search for Parsimonious Cost and Efficiency Reporting\n7 Tax Expenditures and Government Program Spending: Reforming theTwo “Spending” Worlds for Better Expenditure Management\n8 Harper’s Partisan Wedge Politics: Bad Environmental Policy and Bad Energy Policy\nPart Two Selected Policy and Departmental Issues and Realms\n9 One of These Things Is Not Likethe Other? Bottom-Up Reform, Open Information, Collaboration, and the Harper Government\n10 How Foundations Spend: Is the Current 3.5% Asset Disbursement the Right Public Policy?\n11 Managing Canada’s Water: The Harper Era\n12 The National Shipbuilding Model for Government Procurement: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff\n13 How Accurate Is the Harper Government’s Misinformation?Scientific Evidence and Scientists in Federal Policy Making\n14 CIDA, the Mining Sector, and the Orthodoxy of Economic Conservatism in Harper Decision Making\nContributors